Chadian rebels fled south on Sunday pursued by government forces, the military said, as the United Nations refugee agency warned that recent fighting in the country had put aid agencies in danger. Although a calm returned to the capital Ndjamena a week after a bloody assault on the city which left more than 160 people dead, the rebel forces said they were heading south.
A strange ''plant'' grows at the end of a stake on the deserted road among the acacias ? a red triangle bearing a white skull with the words in Portuguese ''Danger, mines.''